Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Anybody who’s caught half an episode a show like Grand Designs knows how great timber buildings can be in terms of architecture and stablility.
Thing is there’s been a lot of mixed press as to just how sustainable and green timber is as a building product. You can’t go anywhere near a building yard at your [...]
Earlier in the year, the Italian government took a step to help an ailing automotive industry and the environment in one measure. They offered a cash-back type deal for people that traded in their polluting old motors for a more economical, new car.
It meant massive surges in demand for smaller cars like the new Fiat [...]
I spent this weekend in Paris as I often do (some would say I’m lucky) and I noticed something new – hybrid taxis. Now, ordinarily, my disdain for the “hybrid solution” is pretty well documented but if mass use of these cars could be useful anywhere it could be the centres of cities.
Let’s face it, [...]
It used to be some guy called Raymond, but now everybody loves economy. Fuel economy, that is, and everybody being car buyers. Well, that’s what the car makers believe as they’re lining up to push new, increasingly economical versions of their cars onto the roads.
A new version of the already perfect-for-the-city, new Fiat 500 yesterday [...]
You know, it’s strange. Initially I wasn’t too fussed about it but now the Superb is fast becoming one of my favourite new cars. While – as someone who grew up in the time of the box-like lumps they used to call Skodas – is kind of strange, isn’t that surprising given the current economical [...]
It’s still months away but the Tokyo Motor Show is already starting to pop up in the headlines. One of the expected stars at the show is the nation’s own manufacturer Mitsubishi with the unveiling of their new plug-in hybrid.
The new Mitsubishi seems to be the prime focus of the Japanese auto maker as [...]
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